Who we are

MAHSC partners

The seven founding partners are:

The seven founding partners of MAHSC combine excellence in academia, clinical service delivery, research management and education to serve a population that has some of the poorest health in the country (three million in Greater Manchester, 11 million within a 50-mile radius).

Together the MAHSC partners employ 34,750 staff and have an annual turnover of £3.2 billion.

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester - established in 2004 from the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology - is the largest single-campus university in the UK. It was ranked equal 3rd in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and is 6th in Europe and 40th in the world (Shanghai Jiao Tong index).

The Faculties of Medical and Human Sciences and of Life Sciences form one of the largest health science groups in Europe. Its strength in medicine extends through Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Clinical Psychology. It houses renowned health specialists in the social, economic and managerial sciences as well as quantitative systems biology in its Faculties of Humanities and of Engineering and Physical Sciences.

NHS partners

Our NHS partners are some of the most highly rated trusts as recognised by numerous Health Service Journal accolades in 2008, and with four of the six recognised by the Healthcare Commission as excellent in terms of quality of services and use of resources. The partners comprise three Acute Trusts, two Specialist Trusts and one Primary Care Trust, and deliver a broad provision of clinical care, including:

  • cancer
  • mental illness
  • neurology and dermatology
  • lung disease
  • maternal and fetal health
  • cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases
  • e-Health using bioinformatics and electronic patient records to link the primary and secondary care sectors

Our pan-partnership strengths include diabetes and cancer.

MAHSC partners will work together to translate world-leading research and rapidly adopt innovations into clinical and healthcare practice for patient and population health improvement.
 

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Patient being prepared for a procedure in an NHS operating room
Manchester AHSC partners will work together to translate world-leading research and rapidly adopt innovations into clinical and healthcare practice for patient and population health improvement.